The impact of data quality defects on clinical decision-making in the intensive care unit.

Objective: Poor clinical data quality might affect clinical decision making and patient treatment. This study identifies quality defects in clinical data collected automatically by bedside monitoring devices in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and examines their effect on clinical decisions.

Methods: Real-world data collected from 7688 patients admitted to the general ICU in a tertiary referral hospital over seven years was retrospectively analyzed.